This all falls onto luck now....
I must.... not lose... again..

Another pass was seen by the wind as the blades of the wanderers meet in equal strikes. Both descended with decent grace as each braced themselves for a blade art.

"So, you never did question what this wandering is all about?"

"I do wonder when this all started though..."

Jerua closed his eyes in the midst of the dust spray from the opponeant. He had been disadvantaged at another pass.

The man smiled to himself while twirling his blade around, in silent preparation of another strike.

"Yes. Nobody gives a damn about this at all. The tales of the older generation has been lost, the reasons have been forgotten. We just do what they did literally....... we wander..."

Jerua leaped up in symmetry to the man, he took a risk attack... Cross Sweep...

He dived down in ignored agony as he was hurt by another blade art.

"Do you think about these things when you die then? When you are leaving the way... do you care about what this is all about?"

Jerua crouched down and light mended his wounds, unsure whether the plunge was still on.
"I thought you said this was just a test of my skills..."

"That should be assumed." The man struck his sword into the ground and edged closer to him.
"Thats what the purpose wants isn't it.... it tests your skills all the time. Even on the way."

"I thought...." Jerua released grip on his sword and let it fall to the ground gently. He stood up in slight puzzlement.

"Humans thought many things Jerua. Even death. That it...."

The second was almost too fast. The man grabbed the blade and thrusted it into the heart of Jerua.

"Is one big cruel funny joke." The man hesistated for awhile, and then pulled out the sword. And silent footstepts brought him away.

The purpose never guides us Jerua. It just looks at us and laugh. It laughs at our ignorance. Our stupidity. And that we never had trusted the help of........... reason.

At all.

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